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Edna O'Brien is pictured here with her husband, the writer Ernest Gebler, in London in 1959. O'Brien's first novel, <em>The Country Girls, </em>was published a year later.

One Of Ireland's Greatest Writers Looks Back On Eight Decades

Irish novelist Edna O'Brien looks back on eight tumultuous decades in a new memoir, Country Girl. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says the book is "a generous gift to readers" but too circumspect about O'Brien's personal life — which included encounters with Samuel Beckett, Richard Burton and Paul McCartney.

'In One Person': A Tangled Gender-Bender

Desire can have a profound effect on young adults during their formative years. Novelist John Irving turns 70 this year, and his latest novel is a coming-of-age story about loss, identity and AIDS — told by a bisexual narrator named Billy Abbott.

Emma Thompson Revives Anarchist 'Peter Rabbit'

After more than 80 years, Emma Thompson's The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit brings Beatrix Potter's beloved character back for a romp around the Scottish countryside — and lots of rule breaking. Thompson says Peter Rabbit's "disrespect for authority" is one of the things she loves about him.

'The Mighty Walzer,' Pingpong Wizard (Of Sorts)

In Howard Jacobson's 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, which is now being published in the U.S., 14-year-old Oliver Walzer wins friends and confidence by playing table tennis. That is, he wins as much confidence as one can from playing pingpong.

<em>Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays</em> by Siri Hustvedt

'Mothers, Fathers, and Others' addresses the realities of motherhood

Siri Hustvedt's essays bring into focus the profound contradictions of motherhood — often eclipsed by the cultural idealization of mothers as the model of self-sacrificing nurturance.

Snoop Dogg presents the nominees for Best Performance By An Actor during the 79th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations at The Beverly Hilton.

Golden Globes nominees avoid obvious pitfalls, but won't restore awards' luster

Beyond the HFPA's year of scandal, the current nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards needed to make an urgent argument: Why should we still care about this awards show?

River monitoring training in progress along the Milwaukee River.

New report finds Milwaukee River basin slightly healthier than the year before

The latest report reflecting the health of the Milwaukee River basin has been released.

John Negroponte, the U.S. director of national intelligence, walks in the hallways of the Threat Operations Center inside the National Security Agency (NSA) on Jan. 25, 2006, in suburban Fort Mead, Maryland.

Wiretapping Battle Gets a Hearing in the Senate

The stakes will be high when the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings into an eavesdropping program President Bush says is needed to fight terrorism, and critics say breaks the law.

The White House released the first image of the collection of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope during a preview event Monday.

NASA's James Webb telescope reveals the universe as we've never seen it before

NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.

Hollywood star and blacklist victim Marsha Hunt dies at 104

Hunt was one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. Her career was disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist.

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